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Seems like Bookchin didn't follow his own advice of always respecting minority opinions! I found that strange about some of his essays: he says that Marxism doesn't apply to the present day because the "worker" as Marx conceived it doesn't really exist, and then presents his philosophy as rather eternal.

Communalism militantly supports reason, modernity and the values of the Enlightenment, positive liberty, Civilisation (i.e. "civitas", or the city and the body politic that inhabits it), as well as the idea of a meaningful History and the possibility of Progress.

Communalism is not a hard and rigid ideology, but a coherent unfolding body of ideas built upon a core set of principles and institutions. It is a process to be applied organically to local cultural, historical, and ecological contexts.